# Can Daystrom tell me an account balance?

> Daystrom can tell you the exact balance a statement printed on the page. It does not track a live running balance across a client's accounts on its own.

Yes, with one important limit. Daystrom can tell you the balance a statement actually printed, because it can read the statement page. What it cannot do is give you a running balance that it computed itself from the transactions.

## What balance can Daystrom give me?

The number a statement shows on the page. Every bank statement prints a beginning balance and an ending balance for the period, and Daystrom reads those straight from the source document. So questions like these work:

- "What ending balance did the March Chase statement print?"
- "What was the beginning balance on the savings account in January?"

Daystrom reports what the statement said, and it can point you to the page it read.

## Why won't it give me a running balance?

Because CounselPro tracks money that moved, not a live balance. The cash-flow view works in flows: money in, money out, and the net between them. It does not carry a structured, running balance from one transaction to the next.

That is a deliberate line. Rather than add up transactions and guess a balance the statement never printed, Daystrom sticks to the figure on the page. If you ask for a live running balance, it will tell you that number is not something this version of the product tracks.

> **Note:** "Net change over a period" and "the balance on a given day" are different questions. Daystrom can total the flows for a period, and it can read a printed balance from a statement, but it will not invent a day-by-day balance the statements do not show.

This is part of how Daystrom [stays grounded in your real data](https://www.counselpro.ai/docs/does-the-analysis-agent-make-things-up). For the fuller picture of what it can and cannot answer, see [what you can ask Daystrom](https://www.counselpro.ai/docs/what-can-i-ask-the-analysis-agent).

Source: https://www.counselpro.ai/docs/can-the-analysis-agent-tell-me-a-balance